Image, Signal, and Distributed Data Processing for Networked eHealth Applications [A View from the Guest Editors]

In this era of distributed computing the trend in medical informatics is toward achieving two goals: the availability of software applications and medical information anywhere and anytime and the invisibility of computing. The six papers in this special issue provide an overview of the most promising prospects for the state-of-the-art and emerging field of image, signal, and distributed data processing for networked eHealth applications.